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Obviously the d.a.c.a. piece would be one of those. there are, you know, fixing the court system that, you know, more judges, faster hearings. it is insane it takes four to six years for people to actually have an asylum claim heard. >> anderson, all of the above. however, as long as we have numbers like you see on the screen of 200,000, 150,000 a month crossing our border it becomes a flash point and makes it impossible to to accomplish any form of comprehensive immigration reform. we have to d...

Covid, flu and rsv, a disturbing number of kids are getting a a nasty even life threatening form of strep. and the u.s. is finalizing plans to give ukraine one of the biggest asks. a patriot missile system. how could that impact the war with russia? barry mccaffrey will join me in a minute. we start on capitol hill where just this morning we got two big updates from the january 6th committee. one, that the final report is scheduled to be at the printer now as we speak. and two, that decisions ...

Congress, republican officials and activists in working to end american democracy, a series of developments confirmed that theres no sign of the fever break figure the gop. even after a bruising election in which voters rejected some of the partys biggest conspiracy theorists and their theories, brand new reporting in new york in which marjorie taylor greene said that the insurrectionists on january 6th would have, quote, won if only she and steve bannon had led them, reveals that a group of the...

Official be careful not to let johns death become a flash point at another time of national tension. >> its exactly why the authorities also, -- the easing of the zero covid measures. yesterday, part way in response to some of the protests. and partly, probably news also actually being occasional -- . that >> authorities lifted loft down in some cities on who also cracking down with other variants police arresting and intimidating protesters. johns upcoming state funeral, may present an addition...

Appears to have sense been deleted by sensors. i miss the old man that just passed away. i miss the old times that were embracing and renaissance-like. >> allowing that outpouring of grief, that nostalgia, that memory without having it turn into or feed criticism of the current leader and the current administration. >> in 1989, the death of another senior communist party official was the catalyst for the tiananmen square protests. they were ultimately crushed in a deadly military crackdown. anal...

Nostalgia fooled by the death of a predecessor could become a new flash point for protests. ivan watson has more. >> this was the weak people across china said their math is how, and theyre not gonna take it anymore. the most widespread display of dissent the country seed in a generation. protesters are pushing back against the crushing lockdown that restrictions of the governments zero covid policy. chinese state media, never showed any of these images. on thursday offering scenes a very differ...

Them 51 rather than 50 seats. lets talk about the state of arizona where an elections official is in hiding after he received threats on social media. maricopa county has confirmed the chairman of the board of supervisors, named bill gates, no relation, a lifelong republican has been moved to an undisclosed location for his safety. maricopa, the heart of election denialism in 2020 became a flash point as technicians scrambled to fix dozens of malfunctions vote tabulating machines on election d...

The united states. >> annie, it seems quaint that we had a debate in this country about whether it was polite to tear up his speech now that he stole documents and took them to mar-a-lago. but that was a flash point at the time, she was criticized for doing what she did. but she was fearless and she was really the most willing to stand up to him during the trump years. >> ive heard from a lot of people looking back on her accomplishments and whats she going to be best remembered for, theyre putt...

Than a decade. they have not met face to face since 2017 in dabos. xi jinping has not met with a u.s. leader since meeting with trump in 2019. both of these leaders are coming into this meeting with considerable, political wind in their sails. xi jinping has just secured a third precedent-breaking term in office after last months communist party congress. and of course, president biden is coming in with unexpected relatively good results in last weeks midterm elections, which hes basically allud...

And a half hours we know they met, even allowing for translation, that is a long time to be sitting there for an argument. >> yeah. and so, beth, where does this go from here? what is the biggest flash point. >> well i couldnt agree with david more than our relationship is at a low point and i think that this allows maybe a way forward of managing some of those tensions, but we should not fool ourselves. we have irreconcilable differences and we have flash points coming up that will test this re...